"Give me your hand," Cecily said.

  Joshua just held his hand out. He did not do anything wrong and had nothing to hide before the sentinel.

  Even if she detected the little mage in the room, Cecily would simply think of the Royal City's safety a Joshua to send the human back to her world.

  That's right... Send her bad not execute her on the spot.

  Cecily was one of the Demonic Realm's servative fa leaders, and as a sentinel, she had always hated senseless killings.

  Joshua's hand was held by Cecily as she pulled his sleeve up to reveal his arm.

  Joshua felt like he was being treated by a traditional ese physi who was taking his pulse.

  "There is no chaos in yic..."

  Cecily once again pced her hand on Joshua's chest, and that movement brought her closer to Joshua. He could evehe st of her body...

  It smelled of gooseberries and lic.

  "Good, there are no after-effects."

  "Sister, what are you doing?" Joshua pulled up his sleeve as he g Cecily.

  What Cecily did was not so much a body search, rather a che Joshua's health.

  "Did you fet that yit out of trol due to one of your experiments st time?"

  "Of course, not." Joshua remembered that before the prince headed to the Human Realm, he had lost trol of his magic during an experiment and had nearly been ed by the chaos. While he mao trol the magi the end, it still caused massive damage to his body and soul.

  Sihat act, the prince was determio learn new magi the Human Realm. The memories after that were somewhat blurred.

  He recalled that when he used the st of his soul to summoh, his dissipating soul met another him in another world.

  "Don't worry, I have recovered. "

  While Cecily's expression was stern, he could still tell from her eyes that she was worried, so he spoke up to ease her s.

  "Make sure... there is ime."

  Cecily fixed Joshua's colr as she spoke in a serious manner.

  "Yeah."

  "I have work to do. Get rid of that human and the others in the dungeon as soon as possible. The dungeon is not a hotel."

  The sentinels' job scope was not limited to the pounds of the Royal Castle. They would scour the darkest ers of the Royal City, dealing with the most vicious of criminals.

  So, Cecily's trip home to the Royal Castle was to see Joshua.

  As he looked at Cecily's departing silhouette, he noticed that the prince's retionship with his siblings was not that tense.

  Joshua still had memories of his eldest brother teag him and his elder sister magic when he was young.

  Aside from their status as a demonic royal family, they were like any ordinary family, supp and g for one another.

  However, that retionship... faded as the siblings grew up.

  Joshua initially thought that everyone was just that way. Were they so cold-blooded that they ignored familial ties?

  The answer was no.

  His elder brother, Knox had grown up withiadel and armed himself as a general all for the sake of using war to make humans reize demonkind's pce.

  His elder sister ied the ma of the Royal Capital. As she wore the mask of a sentinel, she saw to the enfort of order in the capital. Yet she held a servative attitude with regard to the retionship between demons and humans, and would rather maintain the current peace than go to war.

  Owing to their respective ideals, they had to stand on opposite sides. Joshua could already foresee the blood that would be spilled iruggle for the throne.

  For Joshua, both the eventual winner and loser were pitiful.

  Those who struck against their own kin for power were the most pitiful.

  Joshua believed that ge was still possible. It was not difficult to ge a person's mind as long as there portunity.

  It was like that time many people believed in true love again after they watched Titanic.

  Be it movies, novels, or songs, all of them were created to give the audiene sort of power.

  It was time for him to stop waxing lyrical as Joshua could feel that the little mage had already squatted until her legs were numb.

  "She's gone, Ciri."

  Joshua closed his room door a up to the bookshelf as he pulled out a sheepskin scroll from the rightmost side of the shelf.

  "Do you io kill all of the people in the dungeon?" Ciri asked as she walked out from the back of the bookshelf. She had been listening to Joshua and Cecily's versation.

  And she had clearly heard the words, "Get rid of them".

  "Kill them? Nah, too much trouble. I pn to let them all go."

  "Let them go..."

  Ciri had to firm that she did not hear him wrongly and asked again.

  "The Demonic Realm is stantly short of food. I have no reason to feed a group of humans I do not even know. I pn to send them back to their vilge a few days ter or rather, I will personally rescue them myself."

  There were fifty-seven vilgers whom Zenarth had abducted from the vilge. Excluding Ciri who escaped by ce, the rest were imprisoned in the dungeon.

  Most of them were survivors of the bandit raid, and as for how to deal with them, Joshua already had a pn.

  He was going to send all of them bao, sending them back was not the right phrase... Joshua would personally rescue them from the demonigeon himself!

  There were three main ses iy and the Beast". First was the small town, the sed was the snowy mountains on the way to the castle, and the st one was the castle itself.

  The importance of the town that Belle lived in was only sed to the castle.

  There would be many townsfolk iown, and they were all extras with barely any roles to speak of. heless, food movie, excelleras were a y as they were one of the erstones in the overall atmosphere of a movie.

  In a world without actors, where would he firas?

  Even if Joshua found a group of humans for cameos, their ag skills would be a problem.

  The final clusion was simple enough. People pyed a role the best when they pyed as themselves.

  Hence, Joshua decided to use that vilge and its vilgers as the town where Belle lived.

  Iy and the Beast, there was a hunter named Gaston who lived in the same vilge. He was tall and handsome as well as popur with the vilgers. He tried to pursue Belle all the time, but his arrogand uncouth attitude repelled Belle.

  Gaston was an indispensable character in the movie, and Joshua was not looking for ao py the role because he would be pying it himself.

  , Joshua just o act as a human hunter who had strayed into the Demonic Realm and break into the prisohe vilgers were held before resg all of them.

  With that, the vilgers would naturally worship Joshua or the character "Gaston" as a hero.

  Life was like a py, and a py was like life. How true those words were.

  Perhaps the vilgers would never know that they had been living in a story Joshua had written even after filming was over.

  Anyway, as long as the story was good enough, even if they found out, they would not have any opinions about it, right? Just like the little mage...

  "Then, you take me along with you?!"

  Ciri started tret her rash usage of the ring. It was worth three years of food.

  "Unfortunately, no. "

  Joshua shook his head to say no.

  "Why!!! I was kidoo!" Ciri almost cried.

  "Because you know too much."

  Joshua pondered a little before he replied with a very cssic response.